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Concepción Palacios Herrera
Concepción Palacios Herrera (5 December 1893 – 1 May 1981) born in El Sauce, León, was the first female physician in Nicaragua. Her mother was a midwife and healer and her father was a medical naturalist. She was expelled from school for refusing compulsory communion, but the feminist Josefa Toledo de Aguerri supported her so that she was able to study in the Normal School for Young Ladies, from which she graduated in 1919. She went to Mexico in 1919, and in 1927 she graduated as a physician and surgeon from the National School of Medicine of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). In 1928 she returned to Nicaragua, where she supported Augusto César Sandino's fight against the American occupation of Nicaragua. President Jose Maria Moncada had her imprisoned for political reasons, and she went to Mexico when she was freed. She also worked in the U.S. as a specialist, surgeon, and obstetrician. She volunteered as a member of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Sauce, León
El Sauce () is a town and a municipality in the León Department of Nicaragua. Located in the foothills of the Segovia Mountains, the municipality has a population of 31,664 and covers an area of 693 km2. El Sauce is bordered to the north by the municipalities of San José de Achuapa and Estelí and bordered to the south by the municipality of Larreynaga. History El Sauce was originally called Guayabal. The town gained much attention when a statue called the Black Christ of Esquipulas was sent there from Guatemala was placed for the first time under a willow tree. From then, the area was renamed "El Sauce". During the decade of 1900, El Sauce was a railway crossing which included items such as coffee and animals being moved to the port city of Corinto. The railway closed 40 years ago because it was sold as scrap, an event that had significant impact on the railway closure. El Sauce is still a small town dedicated to agricultural production, bees, and livestock. The tow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |